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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2003
Makoto Sasaki, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Makoto Sasaki, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Drivers which are resiliently biased to leaf members bring portions to be pushed and slide operating portions thereof into resilient contact with pressing projections of a manipulating knob and conductive plates respectively and hence, when the portions to be pushed are pushed by the manipulating knob, the slide operating portions slide on the conductive plates. Further, contact positions between the slide operating portions and the conductive plates in a non-loaded state in which the manipulating knob is not present is set by preliminarily considering that the drivers are slightly rotated when the manipulating knob is mounted in a preloaded state. Accordingly, the portions to be pushed are slightly elevated when they are pushed by the manipulating knob.